October 19, 1790

Lyman Hall

He was an ordained minister, a doctor, and one of three Georgians to sign the Declaration of Independence, quite a resume for a man born in Connecticut in 1747. Lyman Hall was from old New England stock and graduated from Yale. He abandoned the congregational ministry for medicine and moved south, eventually settling in Georgia […]

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Hall County is named after Lyman Hall.